Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning

Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-05T21:42:35Z

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:23:39 -0400
"Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:15 PM
> To: Press, Jonathan
> Cc: Theodore Tso; Arjan van de Ven; Eric Paris;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; malware-list@lists.printk.net;
> linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to
> alinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning
>
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > [JON PRESS] I don't get the connection between what I said and your
> > point about not needing blocking open() interface. If I ftp into a
> > Linux machine and GET an infected file, you want FTP to go right
> > ahead and read it and send it to me over the wire?
>
> Shouldn't that be the issue of the FTP server itself not serving up
> "invalid" files, and not the kernel? Why not just hook in it, I'm
> pretty sure they already provide this kind of interface, right?
>
>
> [JON PRESS] So how would that work?

the admin (or distro) decides he wants all files opened by the FTP
server scanned, so he starts the FTP server with the LD_PRELOAD set.

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